Pursuant to notice of February 19, 2020, moved:

That the nineteenth report of the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry entitled Made in Canada: Growing Canada’s Value-Added Food Sector, deposited with the Clerk of the Senate on July 15, 2019, during the first session of the Forty-second Parliament, be placed on the Orders of the Day under Other Business, Reports of Committees – Other, for consideration at the next sitting.

She said: Honourable senators, this motion is similar to the one that was passed and proposed by Senator Terry Mercer to place a report that was tabled in the last Parliament on the Order Paper for debate. This is a procedural step to eventually request that the government respond to the nineteenth report, Made in Canada: Growing Canada’s Value-Added Food Sector, of the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

This report was tabled with the clerk during the summer and we held a public launch in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and have since gotten a lot of great public response to it. But government will not be providing a response to the committee report until the Senate requests a response. Therefore, I’m asking that this report be placed on the Order Paper under Orders of the Day. Thank you.